Gruesome photographs of Reeva Steenkamp’s head and corpse flashed onto the
television screens at Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial today, sending gasps of
shock around the court.

Desi Myers, the mother of one of Miss Steenkamp’s closest friends, walked out
to compose herself. When it happened a second time she sobbed.

The pictures were not the focus of the court’s attention, but appeared when
clerks scrolled through images from Mr Pistorius’ bathroom, during the
cross-examination of a police forensics expert, Colonel Johannes Gerhard
Vermeulen.

Miss Steenkamp, a law graduate turned cover girl, was shot dead in Mr
Pistorius’ bathroom in the